[GreenKeys] 120vdc connectors - opinions?

[keelan at beefchicken.com]

Computer person here,

In all my years, I have never seen a slashed O represent anything but a 0.

But, don't get me started on the back slash: '\', which is without-a-doubt the most infuriating invention of the computer universe. I can only imagine that the inventors of the back slash were all sitting around the exhaust of a diesel backup generator of one of their computers, and were suffering from the deleterious effects of carbon monoxide poisoning when that atrocity of a glyph was invented. It manages to be both confusing and redundant at the same time.

- Keelan


June 26, 2018 2:14 PM, "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Those of us that grew up with Morse code are familiar with 
> using an 0 with a slash through it for zero and a plain O for the 
> letter Oh. The computer people do this backward with the slashed 
> symbol for Oh and the plain one for zero. I've found many 
> instances where the computer folks use a well established term 
> for something completely different. I think they all live in a 
> parallel universe.
> 
> On 6/25/2018 10:51 PM, Paul Birkel wrote:
> 
>> Indeed.  I learned the nomenclature backwards, courtesy of DEC
>> circa 1972.  Took more than 40 years to set me straight :->.
> 
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL